Used in a Sentence

shrug

How to use shrug in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for shrug.

Editorial note

Just shrug and walk away. Thank them for their time.

Examples19
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a gesture involving the shoulders

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shrug gathered in one view.

noun

a gesture involving the shoulders

verb

raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shrug.

noun

a gesture involving the shoulders

verb

raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

Example sentences

1

Just shrug and walk away. Thank them for their time.

2

Maybe the mailing list would be better, but, shrug. Issues !

3

Is the hype so powerful that people just shrug about a huge mutex?

4

The point of this whining is companies certainly don't act like they're in a talent crunch : shrug :

5

I love the design, but shrug at the idea of vetted bloggers. I have HN and twitter and reddit and FB and many other ways to filter content for me.

6

Being able to say you raised test coverage from 30% to 70% is nothing to shrug at. Having early success is key to having continued fun on the project.

7

Please take care not to misunderstand: that doesn't mean you shrug and walk away. Every experience in life, pleasant or painful, has something to teach us.

8

A woman could make the most sexist comment I've ever heard and I'd just give it a shrug; but I'd say shit to a man if he was even obliquely offensive. And yet, on this one, sounding the alarm was wrong.

9

That's what the group think tells us, but in ones personal reality it's not that easy to shrug off. Over the decades I've been on the teams of high profile games and films with medium levels of violence.

10

There are even women that would shrug it off. However, the response of Justine matches ancient societal expectations: if a woman has been violated, she loses all value.

11

My hypothesis: men are socialized to shrug it off or suck it up, and may even become desensitized to it after a while. Women are socialized differently.

12

The way the average american thinks, if the police slowly came every other day and disappeared one of your neighbors, they'd shrug it off and say "oh well what can you do, we need to be safe". Until it was their turn and there was no one to protest.

13

Now it's much easier to shrug off those false beliefs when the depression lifts and just enjoy being relatively normal for a while. That doesn't mean I won't get depressed again, but depression casts less of a shadow over the non-depressed times of my life.

14

If a kid becomes a Krishna its suddenly a bewildering thing, but if a kid joins a gang on the south side of Chicago, we just shrug. Both these things have a lot in common; society, family, etc not providing what they should and not projecting those values to kids.

15

Both of the founders at least made enough from the deal to buy amazing properties in this crazy real-estate markets so I think for them they can shrug off their original baby. In the end though, the product has fallen apart from bit-rot and engineers are slowly moving on to other companies one-by-one.

16

Money is this magical barrier to all sorts of annoying daily minutiae--even a little bit is enough to let you shrug off the effects of suboptimal decisions. Being able to simply buy a lunch when you forgot to bring one can change your whole afternoon of productivity.

17

If we accept an infected system from someone and hand it back to them with a fresh copy of Windows and nothing more to go with it than a shrug, then we are not doing our job. Likewise, if we hand a system back to someone with a password-stealing trojan still left on it which later compromises their E*Trade account, then we are not doing our job.

Proper noun examples

1

Shrug There really is no story here which makes the cloak and dagger theories even more funny. It is almost cargo cult-ish.

2

Shrug I don't actually think these problems are all that complex. XML made them complex.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shrug in a sentence?

Just shrug and walk away. Thank them for their time.

What does shrug mean?

a gesture involving the shoulders

What part of speech is shrug?

shrug is commonly used as noun, verb.